Teacher Tenure Reform and School Choice

[Jarlaxle]

Only a very naive individual would conclude our current educational system is meeting the needs of the student and country. Other than private and charter schools the balance remaining in public education are being short changed.

Pure ideology, no facts.

Pure projection.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Highest Salaries for Experienced Teachers Countries - Bloomberg Best and Worst

1. Luxembourg
2. Switzerland
3. Germany
4. Netherlands
5. Canada
6. Ireland
7. Denmark
8. Belgium
9. Australia
10. South Korea
11. Scotland
12. U.S.

 

[Kosh]

Yes tenure should be done away with in many schools, but the unions and the far left will not have any of it. They do not want to have their own held accountable.

Just like the port unions on the west cost who demand more money (avg. salary $147,000/year) and have their benefits paid for.

 

[bodecea]

A plan by Gov Jindal that will go absolutely nowhere – even though it's the best way to get our current education system out of its rut. Unions will fight it tooth and nail – and many politicians will fall in line, afraid of losing their campaign contributions.


The “K-12 Education Reform” can be read @ http://americanext.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/America-Next-K-12-Education-Reform.pdf


Here are the three main principles:


Allowing education dollars to “follow the child,” meaning to be used as parents and families deem best inside or outside conventional “government schools” — and including online learning and homeschooling.


Reforming teacher tenure laws: “We must get out of the mode of paying teachers for how long they have been breathing. … Good teachers need to be rewarded, and underperforming teachers need to be put on notice, and ultimately dismissed if they do not improve.”


Rejecting the “national curriculum” created by Common Core education standards and returning education decisions to the local level: “It’s bad enough that the federal government has begun tying compliance with Common Core to federal funds, but once you see the methods and the homework that accompanies Common Core, the verdict is in: Common Core must go.”

I am a strong, very strong believer in school choice for our public school system. Schools should have the complete power, without fear of losing funds, to pick and choose what students they will accept or keep.

So what happens to students rejected by their local school?

It's on their parents if they can't raise a kid who can't cut it. I'm sure the private sector would quickly find a way to make a buck off of it.

Heartless and cruel. I've got mine, you go fuck yourself. Typical lib.

So...you don't want our schools set up like those for countries people like you keep comparing us to.....unfavorably. Typical.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Public schools are the best thing for America, it's where you learn to get along with other Americans.
Unions represent teachers, who should be paid much better, then tenure can go.
Common Core requires one to think, which is why many Americans fear it.

Nice left wing talking points.
I saw a video given by this "professional educator" on how common core math is better than traditional math...It was the most mind blowing pile of nonsense to ever come out of the educrat echo chamber...
She went on to say how this will teach children that not only does 9+6 equal 15 but why 9+6 equals 15....All it turned out to be is a different way of adding two amount together to acquire a sum.....We were doing the same thing in school when I was a kid. We just used objects. Joe has 6 apples, mary has 9 apples. How many apples do Joe and mary have together.
"Young learners".....Hey genius, they are STUDENTS.....

This is such bullshit......"It's more comfortable", she says...LOL.....And these kids are going to tell their boss "I can't do this because it's no comfortable.".....
"You're fired".....That makes ME comfortable.

 

[thereisnospoon]

So you want to eliminate the only benefit teachers really get in the US system? That sounds like a plan.

And do we REALLY want locals in Louisiana to teach history? Yeah I bet they will have a favorable view on slavery and segregation in that aspect. If you want to be homeschooled, that's okay. But they must take the aptitude tests that all students must take and you still have to pay taxes to the school district from which you are in. You still live in that community and you still have to support the community structure.

I don't where this idea of defunding public schools makes educaton better in this country.

The community structure as you call it regarding public schools is not working.
The status quo must DIE.....Tenure? How the hell this ever got started ( guaranteed job unless a teacher commits a crime) is a miracle....Time for accountability in our schools.
Those educators who perform well, don't have illicit sexual relations with their students, etc have nothing to fear.....

 

[thereisnospoon]

Reform the system by threatening teachers. Good idea.

Go after unions. Good idea.

Reject standards and replace them with promises. Good idea

In most states, teachers either can be members of unions and have limited or no collective bargaining rights. Those states do just fine without the ridiculous nonsense such as what goes on in New Jersey....Where public sector unions which are under fire from worn out and tapped out taxpayers, were once sacrosanct.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Public schools are the best thing for America, it's where you learn to get along with other Americans.
Unions represent teachers, who should be paid much better, then tenure can go.
Common Core requires one to think, which is why many Americans fear it.

Nice left wing talking points.
I saw a video given by this "professional educator" on how common core math is better than traditional math...It was the most mind blowing pile of nonsense to ever come out of the educrat echo chamber...
She went on to say how this will teach children that not only does 9+6 equal 15 but why 9+6 equals 15....All it turned out to be is a different way of adding two amount together to acquire a sum.....We were doing the same thing in school when I was a kid. We just used objects. Joe has 6 apples, mary has 9 apples. How many apples do Joe and mary have together.
"Young learners".....Hey genius, they are STUDENTS.....

This is such bullshit......"It's more comfortable", she says...LOL.....And these kids are going to tell their boss "I can't do this because it's no comfortable.".....
"You're fired".....That makes ME comfortable.

As I said, it requires thinking. You won't approve.

 

[The Rabbi]

A plan by Gov Jindal that will go absolutely nowhere – even though it's the best way to get our current education system out of its rut. Unions will fight it tooth and nail – and many politicians will fall in line, afraid of losing their campaign contributions.


The “K-12 Education Reform” can be read @ http://americanext.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/America-Next-K-12-Education-Reform.pdf


Here are the three main principles:


Allowing education dollars to “follow the child,” meaning to be used as parents and families deem best inside or outside conventional “government schools” — and including online learning and homeschooling.


Reforming teacher tenure laws: “We must get out of the mode of paying teachers for how long they have been breathing. … Good teachers need to be rewarded, and underperforming teachers need to be put on notice, and ultimately dismissed if they do not improve.”


Rejecting the “national curriculum” created by Common Core education standards and returning education decisions to the local level: “It’s bad enough that the federal government has begun tying compliance with Common Core to federal funds, but once you see the methods and the homework that accompanies Common Core, the verdict is in: Common Core must go.”

I am a strong, very strong believer in school choice for our public school system. Schools should have the complete power, without fear of losing funds, to pick and choose what students they will accept or keep.

So what happens to students rejected by their local school?

It's on their parents if they can't raise a kid who can't cut it. I'm sure the private sector would quickly find a way to make a buck off of it.

Heartless and cruel. I've got mine, you go fuck yourself. Typical lib.

So...you don't want our schools set up like those for countries people like you keep comparing us to.....unfavorably. Typical.

That wasnt even English. Not even.

 

[LoneLaugher]

I heard parts of the symposium that was held by Tim Scott regarding this matter yesterday. Jindal couldn't articulate the reasons why doing what he is suggesting will lead to an improved education system for American children. Neither could any of the other panelists.

One of them....a rep from SC.....must have said the words "freedom" and "choice" a dozen times each in his opening comments.

McMorris Rogers told us that she's a mom and knows how school choice is important. She didn't tell us how or why. But she knows.

Empty rhetoric.

 

[Judicial review]

This guys is an Indian and people will just assume he drives like this guy and get irritated and not vote for him,

 

[Judicial review]

I'm this guy,